(pp. 113-144) "Blanche is seated in a tense hunched position in a bedroom chair...On the table beside the chair is a bottle of liquor and a glass. The rapid, feverish polka tune, the "Varsouviana," is heard. The music is in her mind; she is drinking to escape it and the sense of disaster closing in on her, and she seems to whisper the words of the song...
"Blanche: That -- music again...
Mitch: What music?
Blanche: The "Varsouviana"! The polka tune they were playing when Allan -- Wait!
[A distant revolver shot is heard. Blanche seems relieved.]
There now, the shot! It always stops after that.
[The polka music dies out again.]
Yes, now it's stopped."
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Tennessee Williams(pp. 113-144)
"Blanche is seated in a tense hunched position in a bedroom chair...On the table beside the chair is a bottle of liquor and a glass. The rapid, feverish polka tune, the "Varsouviana," is heard. The music is in her mind; she is drinking to escape it and the sense of disaster closing in on her, and she seems to whisper the words of the song...
"Blanche: That -- music again...
Mitch: What music?
Blanche: The "Varsouviana"! The polka tune they were playing when Allan -- Wait!
[A distant revolver shot is heard. Blanche seems relieved.]
There now, the shot! It always stops after that.
[The polka music dies out again.]
Yes, now it's stopped."
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